Well Nero isn't going to be happy until windows shows the drive in device manager. This is a well know problem with win9x. Things to check:-Is the bios set up as Auto for the ide channel it's on?Is the device "posting" properly. Some atapi devices appear not post in a manner which leaves them able to respond to the win9x driver. You can solve this one by installing a Dos cd driver in the config.sys (without the mscdex in autoexec). The windows driver will be quite happy to take over from the dos driver as long as mscdex isn't installed.

"Is the bios set up as Auto for the ide channel it's on? Is the device "posting" properly. Some atapi devices appear not post in a manner which leaves them able to respond to the win9x driver. You can solve this one by installing a Dos cd driver in the config.sys (without the mscdex in autoexec). The windows driver will be quite happy to take over from the dos driver as long as mscdex isn't installed."

I missed the fact that Windows doen't see the drive. I'll bet it's not jumpered properly for it's IDE assigment. Where is the drive placed and how is it jumpered?As I recall, my 2500 came jumpered as slave.

To tell u the truth I have no idea what jumpered means but Id guess it means something to do with the cables I unplugged from the Sony burner (my bottom drive) and plugged into the NEC burner. Didnt see any slave and master switches on the drive tho.

Originally posted by brandon_ae To tell u the truth I have no idea what jumpered means but Id guess it means something to do with the cables I unplugged from the Sony burner (my bottom drive) and plugged into the NEC burner. Didnt see any slave and master switches on the drive tho.

OK, that's the problem then, and easy to fix.The ribbon cable has 2 connectors, which one is the NEC connected to? If it's the end one, then it should probably be set to master. On the back of the drive are a set of 8-12 pins with a small jumper on 2 of the pins. On top of the drive, on the label, is a key that tells you where to put the jumper for "master".